Music, landscape architecture, disc golf, screen printing and whatever else is fun :): Virgin Island Part 2

As we walked down the hill from our resort to The Beach Bar for our last show on the islands, I mumbled to Jerome "time to go to work" and couldn't help but laugh that this truly is the coolest job on the planet. The four of us loved our time on the islands and were sad to go when the time finally came. The St. John Festival was a lot of fun, but hurt us in terms of crowd size as people would stay up all night in the village and rarely take advantage of the great music being played at all the bars in Cruz Bay.

Zach's creative songwriting was on display the entire two weeks, but the last four shows on the island will be tough to beat in terms of show quality.

These run of shows were some of the best I've seen Zach play in the almost 3 years of knowing him and are worth revisiting over and over again. Funky versions of old songs, rare requests and some on the spot song writing made these gigs ones to remember. It's fun to be able to see Zach fiddle on his guitar trying to find a groove to a song that he is writing on the spot, and then hear it three days later with structure, beautiful lyrics and room to expand. This tour was a treat to say the least!

We had a handful of folks come down for the shows in the islands and to spend their 4th of July with us and it was everything it was built up to be. Dancers packed the small stage as Zach belted out some truly classic versions of some songs that have been in his catalog for quite a while now.

The trees over hanging the beach were occupied by dancers and climbers as they experienced Zach Deputy in their own way. The beach was packed from the fireworks display and dozens of people could be found dancing in the water as boats with families looked on from their perch. Zach and I are now combing over all the songs from the tour so keep a look out for those songs to pop up on Myspace. Some are already up, but we're really excited to see the response to Zach's new song, Volcano. The song was written on the spot during the July 1st show at The Beach Bar and was then played at the next couple shows. We all saw this song come together with ease and agreed that it will soon be a ZD classic.